Assessing the long-term impact of truth commissions: the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission in historical perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (09) ◽  
pp. 52-5006-52-5006
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Long Term Impact

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Law of Prior Consultation: Obstacles and Opportunities for Democratization and Political Participation in Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti ◽  
Lexy Seedhouse
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The State ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Law

A study informed by long-term fieldwork with Amazonian and Andean indigenous peoples examines their experiences of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Law of Prior Consultation. It engages with these efforts, which sought to address injustice by creating a new pact between the state and its indigenous citizens, their various failures, and the unintended opportunities that they have created for the political participation of indigenous peoples and their representatives.Un estudio basado en el trabajo de campo a largo plazo con los pueblos indígenas amazónicas y andinos examine sus experiencias de la Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación y la Ley de Consulta Previa de Perú, que buscaba abordar la injusticia creando un nuevo pacto entre el estado y sus ciudadanos indígenas. Aborda sus diversos fracasos y las oportunidades no previstas que han creado para la participación políticas de los pueblos indígenas y sus representantes.

scholarly journals Hyper-compressions: The rise of flash fiction in “post-transitional” South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Blair
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Historical Significance

This article begins with a survey of flash fiction in “post-transitional” South Africa, which it relates to the nation’s post-apartheid canon of short stories and short-short stories, to the international rise of flash fiction and “sudden fiction”, and to the historical particularities of South Africa’s “post-transition”. It then undertakes close readings of three flash fictions republished in the article, each less than 450 words: Tony Eprile’s “The Interpreter for the Tribunal” (2007), which evokes the psychological and ethical complexities, and long-term ramifications, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Michael Cawood Green’s “Music for a New Society” (2008), a carjacking story that invokes discourses about violent crime and the “‘new’ South Africa”; and Stacy Hardy’s “Kisula” (2015), which maps the psychogeography of cross-racial sex and transnational identity-formation in an evolving urban environment. The article argues that these exemplary flashes are “hyper-compressions”, in that they compress and develop complex themes with a long literary history and a wide contemporary currency. It therefore contends that flash fiction of South Africa’s post-transition should be recognized as having literary–historical significance, not just as an inherently metonymic form that reflects, and alludes to, a broader literary culture, but as a genre in its own right.

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